Advance Diver????

So I'm back in Cairo. Hanging out at a hostel waiting until it's time to go to the airport for my flight back home. I just walked down the street and I realized that women in Cairo actually go out unlike in the rest of Egypt where they seem to hide. So that was nice.

I finished my diving course. It's kinda funny that I did the Advance course...because at the beginning I couldn't even submerge into the water. The crappy dive instructors at the first place I went to just kept pulling me under. I kept asking what I was doing wrong and they didn't tell me. Anyways finally I went to another diver center where there weren't Arabic men that wanted to hold my hand underwater...and it went much better.

We did two really famous dive sites, The Canyon and Blue Hole. It was kind of scary as we were walking to Blue Hole there were all these plaques of people that had died there. My instructor reassured us that none of them were recreational divers, all were dive masters and instructors pushing their limits. It was still a little sobering. But they were really fantastic dives. The one dive we went 30m into a canyon. When we were swimming back up everyones bubbles were floating up to the top of the canyon with tons of different colored fish (and I think I was just slightly gorked from the nitrogen) it was beyond spectacular. I also discovered why you're not suppose to drink and dive. One evening after a day of diving I only had 3 beers and I was already buzzed. I can't imagine drinking while diving. Sorry mother if this offends you.

No Mike I took no treasures from the sea. Whats up with you being so corny lately? And Uncle Gil I decided to leave the mummies at the museum. I'm a little disappointed I didn't get back to Cairo in time to see the museum again to check out the mummies after seeing their tombs and temples. But it's all good. Oh and parents, thank you for letting us know you are alive. When do you come back? And Tricia thanks for taking care of the U of M stuff. Now that I'm in the acknowledging mood...thank-you to all who have faithfully read my blog. Likely this will be my last post until I take off around the world again. At this point I'm not sure when or where that will be. Potentially Iceland in August....but no plans yet. If I do end up going to school in Sept this will seriously hamper my travelling. But that's life.